An austere US budget proposal targets education, research and programs that analyze climate change. “The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Library, home to one of the largest Earth and natural science collections in the world, faces a 52% funding decrease in the fiscal year (FY) 2018 federal budget...
Security threats have evolved in recent decades, and governments must likewise prepare strategies beyond the use of force to monitor, control insurgent groups that are destabilizing so much of the Middle East and Africa. Joseph Nye of Harvard University who coined the phrase soft power points to a...
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About 60 percent of the electorate turned out in Crimea for a special referendum; reports suggest that 95 percent voted to join Russia. Next, Russia will decide whether to annex the peninsula it passed to Ukraine in 1954. Most of the international community opposed the hurried election, especially...
As residents of Crimea queue to cast their votes on a referendum Sunday on whether to join Russia or remain with Ukraine, the world has already cast its ballot. The verdict from prevailing world opinion is an overwhelming 'nyet' for Russia's...
Though many developing countries are cheering a recent WTO ruling declaring US agricultural subsidies illegal, indigent farmers in Central Asia will never know the difference. Since the dismantling of the Soviet regime, the cotton industries in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan have been...
The World Trade Organisation ruling last week that billions of dollars in US subsidies to cotton farmers were illegal amounts to a big moral victory for developing countries trying to compete on the world market...
US President Bush recently ended import tariffs on foreign steel in order to avoid retaliatory sanctions by the European Union. But during the period of tariff protection, the US steel industry restructured itself. Many firms closed down or were taken over, says this editorial in India's...
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From Afghanistan to Australia, countries across Asia are preparing for the effects of a US war on Iraq that is expected to begin any day now. Anti-war protests in Australia are on a scale not seen since that country sent troops to help the US in Vietnam. In other countries, worries run the gamut...
KUALA LUMPUR -- Asia is bracing for a conflict in Iraq as though it were the start of a new world war, in the sense that few countries feel they will be immune from the fallout.
Fears for the stability of...
Homelessness is a mark of failure for communities in providing basic security. Based on national reports, about 2 percent of the world’s population may be homeless. Another 20 percent lacks adequate housing, reports demographer Joseph Chamie. Such statistics come with a caveat. Obtaining accurate...
Under the open sky: Increasing numbers of people are homeless, in both wealthy and poor cities, from Russia to India
NOTE: This article was updated on 21 January 2020 to include the specific cautionary note from the OECD on using the data for...
Ukraine is in political and economic turmoil after Russia’s takeover of Crimea and support of separatists in the eastern part of the nation. The government cannot afford inefficiencies, and a new law allows the government led by President Petro Poroshenko to hire foreigners for top ministerial...
Good governance with foreign help: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, hired former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, to be governor of the Odessa oblast, top; Aivaras Abromavicius, left, from Lithuania serves as economy minister and...
